Michael Kourabas works across UUSC’s programs to maximize the impact of its grassroots partners around the world. In addition to directing UUSC’s grantmaking and partner support work, Michael has conducted on-the-ground assessments of UUSC’s work and convenings with UUSC’s grassroots partners in Croatia, Greece, Haiti, Nepal, and the Philippines.

Trained as an attorney, Michael has a strong background in international human rights law and corporate accountability. In various roles prior to joining UUSC, Michael implemented the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and worked to support the International Criminal Court’s investigations in Kenya and northern Uganda. He also helped launch one of the nation’s first Business and Human Rights practices at an American law firm.

Michael received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Michigan in 2004, and his law degree from William & Mary School of Law in 2008. Michael is passionate about organizing philanthropy for systemic change. He is on the board of the Engaged Donors for Global Equity (EDGE) Funders Alliance and has served as an advisor to the EDGE Global Engagement Lab learning community. From 2019-2021, he was a member of the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Human Rights Commission, to which he was appointed co-chair in 2020.

Sharon Anderson Damelio is the Senior Director of Development at WhyHunger, which works to advance the right to food around the globe by supporting social movements, scaling out agroecology, and fueling grassroots solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial, and economic justice. Before joining the team at WhyHunger, Sharon worked as the Development Director at Central Outreach & Advocacy Center, an Atlanta nonprofit that provides supportive services to those who are homeless and advocates for policies that improve the lives of people living in poverty.

Sharon’s love of nutritious food is older than her love for the powerful work that makes it accessible to all. She previously worked as an Assistant Editor at Fine Cooking magazine and co-authored a cookbook and memoir called Three Many Cooks. Sharon holds a B.A. in English and Classics from Williams College and a Master of Divinity from Yale. She lives with her husband and their dog in New York City.

Davina is a Senior Program Officer at FRIDA|The Young Feminist Fund. For the past six years, she has worked to foster the sustainability of young feminist movements, advocating for interconnected funding models and support systems that strengthen interdependence among various intersectional social justice movements. She is a Guatemalan-Mexican trans woman passionate about migration and territorial autonomy, as well as transition and bodily autonomy as interwoven cornerstones of social, gender, and climate justice. Davina is finalizing her master’s degree in Gender and Public Policy and is based in Mexico City, where she also volunteers with a local organization focused on transfeminine memory and art.

charles is a Chicago based multi-disciplinary artist, organizer and space holder. He is currently the Deputy Director of Fund Strategy for the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). charles has worked in communities across the United States and globally with poor, working class, disabled, young, LGBT, currently/formerly active drug users and formerly homeless folks. He has worked in all realms of the social justice arena doing everything from direct service provision, lobbying, development, communications and direct action. charles uses that background to inform both his artistic and movement work with a particular lens on Black, Queer, Feminist perspectives that naturally create space for growth rooted in true freedom.

Magda is a feminist and resource justice activist committed to systemic transformation, and an Ashoka Fellow since 2025. She originated and co-founded the Feminist Fund in Poland, which is a power-shifting, community-led, trust-based, and a participatory grantmaker supporting grassroots and frontline organizing since 2018. Magda’s background spans transformative philanthropy, women’s human rights, regenerative activism and intersectional organizing. In the past, she’s been involved with FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund, FundAction and Fenomenal Funds. A cross-cultural psychologist by training, she co-authored and co-edited alternative reports on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Poland.

Angela is the director of the Amazon Defenders Fund at Amazon Watch. With over three decades of social justice activism and international fieldwork, she has walked alongside Indigenous, Afro-descendant, LGBTQ+, women-, and youth-led movements throughout Abya Yala (Latin America and the Caribbean). Her work spans rights of nature, environmental justice, civil and political rights, and sexual health and rights, using strategies such as solidarity mobilization, ethnographic and qualitative research as accompaniment, advocacy, and capacity building. Angela’s roots trace back to the Hñähñu Indigenous people of Hidalgo, Mexico, where both her grandmother and mother were from.

Hilda drives the design and implementation of donor services, knowledge management, inclusive grantmaking practices, and future-centering strategies that seek to reimagine philanthropy. Prior to HIP, Hilda worked as an advisor to philanthropists and philanthropic organizations addressing issues ranging from racial justice, human rights, and criminal justice reform to climate change and early childhood education. Hilda has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from Brown University and a master’s degree in international administration from the University of Miami. She serves on the board of Drug Policy Alliance, and enjoys baking, reading historical fiction about witchcraft, and writing cranky blog posts from her home in Northern Illinois.

Darrah grew up in Kansas City, United States, before relocating to Germany in 2007. In Germany she obtained a M.Sc. in Finance and began her career. After 10+ years working in the financial sector in Africa, Asia and Europe, in 2019, Darrah settled in Berlin and began working in philanthropic financial management. Besides finance, she has also been heavily involved in DFF’s governance and management. She has led a successful collective salary reform process and co-led DFF’s shift to a distributed, anti-oppressive leadership model over the past two years. She links sound financial practice to justice-centered management and governance and is excited to her expertise to help the EDGE community thrive.

As Vice President of Inquiry & Insights, Olga leads Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ thought
leadership efforts, developing original research, programs and tools to accelerate philanthropy in
pursuit of a just world. In this capacity, Olga has led hallmark programs, including the Theory of the
Foundation and Strategic Time Horizons initiatives catalyzing knowledge, collaboration, and impact.
She currently leads the Foresight & Futures Initiative to help philanthropy innovate, envision and co-create an equitable future for the people and the planet. Olga is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops.Previously, Olga held positions at the National Endowment for Democracy and the Open Society Foundations. Olga holds a masters of international affairs from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s in international affairs from The George Washington University. She also holds a certificate from INSEAD’s International Leaders Program. Olga currently lives in Munich, Germany, where she cheers loudly with her husband, son and dog for the Bayern München Football Club.

Hana is the Director of Programs. She brings over six years of experience working within funder networks, alongside a background in multispecies anthropology and environmental research. Through her work in the nonprofit sector, Hana witnessed firsthand how unjust and harmful philanthropic systems can be. She takes funder organizing seriously and is committed to challenging philanthropy to shift power and resources toward grassroots movements. She believes in building toward a world beyond philanthropic dependency, where movements are sovereign and thriving. Beyond EDGE, Hana stewards land with her family through a regenerative agriculture project dedicated to biodiversity and ecological care (@dakatrafarm). In her free time, she enjoys spending time with animals and in the dirt.

Kinga Wisniewska joins us as the Director of Philanthropic Partnerships. Kinga has nearly ten years experience working in fundraising and resource mobilization for social justice organizations, most recently from FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund where she served as the Chief of Resource Mobilization. Kinga’s fundraising practice is rooted in transforming traditional forms of philanthropy by challenging the complex and intertwined notions of wealth and privilege, tied to redistributing money and resources from those who have, to those who have not. In her free time, Kinga loves being in nature, cooking, and reading in the sun.

Martina joined EDGE nearly a year ago as an Operations and Communications Trainee and has recently transitioned into the role of Membership and Operations Coordinator. She brings a solid academic foundation, holding a Master’s degree in Policies and Governance in Europe from LUISS University in Rome. With a strong passion for discovery, diversity, and social justice, she previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics of Tourism and was actively involved in volunteer work supporting vulnerable communities. Her lifelong connection to nature inspires her dedication to environmental protection. Energetic and driven by strong values, Martina is fully aligned with EDGE’s mission to harness positive energy for building a better world.